Sentences with phrase «using human skeletons»

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Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

Then they powdered single teeth from 36 skeletons ranging in age from 3300 years to 1500 years old and extracted tiny fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), a marker commonly used for genetic typing of human populations.

BARE BONES Differences between the skeletons of modern humans (back) and Neandertals (front) may stem from the way the groups use some genes involved in bone growth.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

To get a more intuitive handle on his own research, Odde is using human dancers to explore how the cell's skeleton of microtubules spontaneously assembles and falls apart.

«As we found here, those developmental processes are still used to build the skeletons of many vertebrate groups, including humans.»

To conduct the study, Mushotzky and his colleagues re-examined data from 836 active galaxies detected by NASA's Swift Burst Alert Telescope that strongly emit high - energy, or «hard,» X-rays — the same X-rays that medical technicians use to visualize the human skeleton.

Rupp builds her skeletons using bones from the most commonly killed birds; worldwide, humans eat 77 million tons of poultry annually, the equivalent in weight to more than 200 Empire State Buildings.

Its learning algorithm generated rough skeletons of each person's movement and used those outlines to infer human intentions and mimic their responses in social situations.

A range of gridded photographs of the human skeleton along with corresponding gridded sheets which students can use to draw the image on, transferring detail one square at a time.

*** An alternative task to assembling a human skeleton - engage your students by getting them to assemble a gorilla skeleton using the printout on card and split pins.

As you peer into the sacred cenote, your guide explains how archeologists delved into this pilgrimage site and pulled out wood, shells, cloth, jewelry and the skeletons of men and children, confirming that the natural sinkhole indeed was once used as a human sacrifice site.Stand on one of the platforms at the colossal ball court where Mayans played sports, and have another person from your group whisper from 150 feet (46 meters) away.

Houseago has used bronze, aluminum, wood, plaster, and charcoal to sculpt awkward proportions and contorted forms that are overwhelmingly physical with underlying transparency — iron skeletons allow his viewers to witness the «nuanced legibility of the human form.»

But I think fertilizing vast sterile ocean with iron and creating more food for ocean life [and consequently more food from humans] is a better way to go - you using CO2 for a good purpose rather just storing somewhere - and storing CO2 in gas / ice form has some possibility being suddenly released some way, whereas CO2 in skeleton of tiny creatures most likely ends up as limestone.